Math researchers agree that students need the ability to make math pictures in their minds. Mental Math is a workbook devoted to helping your children master mental calculation, working out math problems in their minds. Important computation, strategies, quick tips, and thinking shortcuts are provided. Mental Math strategies will help your children solve math problems quickly and accurately while developing a foundation for future math encounters.

Mental Math features one page for each week of the year. Each strategy is introduced with an example and guided steps that help students break down problems and compute answers without the aid of a calculator or written computation. This collection was written in Singapore and adapted from the world-renowned Singapore math curriculum. There are sixty-four reproducible pages and an answer key.

Features

Suitable For: Grade 7/Level 6

Pages: 64 pages

Printed in the USA

Reproducible

Copyright: 2011

Topics covered:
Adding a Series of Odd Numbers
Adding a Series of Even Numbers
Adding a Series of Consecutive Numbers
Adding a Series of Numbers in a Pattern
Multiplying Numbers Ending with 9
Multiplying Numbers by 111
Multiplying Numbers by 125
Multiplying Five-Digit Numbers by 11
Multiplying Consecutive Numbers from 90 to 100
Multiplying Consecutive Numbers from 100 to 110
Multiplying Whole Numbers by Mixed Numbers
Dividing Whole Numbers by Mixed Numbers
Adding Three Special Fractions
Percentage: 2.5% of a Number
Percentage: 55% of a Number
Percentage: 33 1/3% of a Number
Squaring Numbers from 50 to 90
Squaring Numbers from 100 to 109
Squaring: Adding the Square of a Number and Its Double
Squaring: Subtracting the Squares of Two Consecutive Numbers
Square Root: Finding the Sqaure Root of Numbers Ending with 1
Square Root: Finding the Square Root of Numbers Ending with 5
Cube Root: Finding the Cube Root of Numbers Ending with 2, 3, 7, and 8
Cube Root: Finding the Cube Root of Numbers Ending with 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, and 9
Time: Finding the Day of the Week in the 21st Century
Time: Finding the Day of the Week in a 21st Century Leap Year
Special Number 429
Special Number 715
Special Number 858
Finding the Sum of Ascending Double Numbers
Finding the Sum of Ascending Triple Numbers
Finding the Product of any Number and 99